> A good first step would be to force Facebook to let users easily take out their data in machine-readable form, including their social graph, posts and media.

> A good first step would be to force Facebook to let users easily take out their data in machine-readable form, including their social graph, posts and media. > They have done that voluntarily for years. It's under your settings. Only kinda sorta. I exported my data and the photos were clearly lower-res versions from the ones that are currently live on my profile. Also I doubt the export contains all the data they have linked to you, as I bet they have far more from their tracking, analytics, and shadow profiles that they won't export.